Mark Pawlak

Mark Pawlak is the author of six poetry collections and the editor of as many anthologies. His latest books are "Jefferson’s New Age Salon: Mashups and Matchups" (poems, Cervena Barva Press 2010) and "When We Were Countries: Poems and Stories by Outstanding High School Writers," fourth in a series of anthologies of the “best” writing by teens (Hanging Loose Press, 2010). His work has been translated into German, Polish, and Spanish, and has appeared widely in English in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Anthology of Poetic Journals and in the literary magazines New American Writing, Mother Jones, Poetry South, The Saint Ann’s Review, and The World, among many others. He has received awards from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and Pushcart Nomination. For the past 30 years Pawlak has been an editor of the Brooklyn-based Hanging Loose, the oldest independent literary journal and press in the country. He supports his poetry habit by teaching mathematics at UMass Boston, where he is Director of Academic Support Programs. He lives in Cambridge.